Deactivating Tour Riders' Glorious Loyalty Oath
Tour de France riders have signed a loyalty oath promising a fair, honest race. What if they stopped getting caught doping? That might be better. Or even better yet: What if they stopped doping? The ridiculous loyalty oath reminds me of Joseph Heller's Catch 22, in which Captain Black initiates a Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade requiring every soldier to sign an oath of loyalty. Then they have to "sign two loyalty oaths, then three, then four; then he introduced the pledge of allegiance, and after that the 'The Star Spangled Banner,' one chorus, two choruses, three choruses, four choruses."


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